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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK IV. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS,
HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR
FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 29. (15.)—NINETY-SIX ISLANDS OF THE GALLIC OCEAN. (search)
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
ATRIUM VESTAE
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
FORNIX AUGUSTI
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FORNIX AUGUSTI
* probably an arch at the head of the pons Aemilius,
remains of which and an inscription (CIL vi. 878) are reported to have
been found in the fourteenth century. This inscription merely records
a restoration by Augustus after 12 B.C. In 1551 two other inscriptions
(CIL vi. 897, 898) to Gaius and Lucius Caesar were found near the temple
of Fortuna Virilis, which may have belonged to the arch (LS iii. 39;
Jord. i. 2. 485).
See BC 1924, 229-235; RAP iii. 179; Mitt. 1925, 337, 349, 350, for
an identification with the ARCUS STILLANS (q.v.) and for a theory that
it was an arch of a branch aqueduct of the Aqua Claudia (not the Marcia,
as is wrongly state;) across the river (Frontinus, de aquis, i. 20; modum
quem acceperunt (arcus Neroniani) aut circum ipsum montem (Caelium)
aut in Palatium Aventinumque et regionem Transtiberinam dimittunt).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
HORTI AGRIPPAE
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HORTI AGRIPPAE
gardens in the campus Martius, near the THERMAE
AGRIPPAE (q.v.), which he left by will to the Roman people in 12 B.C.
(Cass. Dio liv. 29. 4; cf. Ov. ex Ponto i. 8. 37-8 and CIL vi. 29781;
NS 1885, 343).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
MAUSOLEUM AUGUSTI
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PONS AEMILIUS
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
SEP. C. CESTII
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SEP. C. CESTII
* the tomb of a C. Cestius, possibly the praetor who is
mentioned once by Cicero (Phil. iii. 26; cf. RE iii. 2005). In any case
he died before Agrippa, 12 B.C. (CIL vi. 1375), and the monument dates
from that period. It is a pyramid, standing in the angle between the
Via Ostiensis and the street which skirted the south-west side of the
Aventine, directly in the line of the later Aurelian wall close to the Porta
Ostiensis. It is of brick-faced concrete covered with slabs of white
marble, is 27 metres high and about 22 square, and stands on a foundation
of travertine. In the interior is the burial chamber, For the frescoes of Victories in the vault see Architettura ed Arti Dec. i. (1921-2), 339.
5.95 metres long,
4.10 wide and 4.80 high. On the east and west sides, about halfway up,
is the inscription recording the names and titles of Cestius, and below,
on the east side only, another which relates the circumstances of the
erection of the monument (CIL vi. 1374). In f
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
VESTA, AEDICULA, ARA
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VESTA, AEDICULA, ARA
* a shrine which Augustus, after becoming pontifex
maximus, built close to or within his own house on the Palatine, and
dedicated 28th April, 12 B.C. (Ov. Fast. iv. 951; Met. xv. 864; Fast. Caer.
Praen. ad iv Kal. Mai, CIL is. p. 213, 236; and possibly Cass. Dio liv.
27. 3; cf. CIL i². p. 317). It is regarded as probable that a Palladium was
kept within this temple (cf. coins with Vesta and Palladium, Stevenson,
Dictionary of Roman Coins, 854-855), referred to in an inscription of
the fourth century from Privernum (CIL x. 6441: praepositus palladii
Palatini), Cf. DOMUS AUGUSTIANA (p. 165).
and that this temple became in time more important than
that in the forum (WR 76, 156). No certain traces of it have been
found, and its location is uncertain. Some sixteenth century drawings
(Dosio, Florence, Uffizi 2039) have been thought to represent this round
temple on the Palatine (BC 1883, 198-202 ; GA 1888, 151-152 ; Altm. 72),
but this view has been vigorously comb
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Agrippa Po'stumus
a posthumous son of M. Vipsanius Agrippa, by Julia, the daughter of Augustus, was born in B. C. 12.
He was adopted by Augustus together with Tiberius in A. D. 4, and he asstumed the toga virilis in the following year, A. D. 5. (Suet. (Octav. 64, 65; D. C. 54.29, 55.22.) Notwithstanding his adoption he was afterwards banished by Augustus to the island of Planasia, on the coast of Corsica, a disgrace which he incurred on account of his savage and intractable character; but he was not guilty of any crime.
There he was under the surveillance of soldiers, and Augustus obtained a senatusconsultum by which the banishment was legally confirmed for the time of his life.
The property of Agrippa was assigned by Augustus to the treasury of the army.
It is said that during his captivity he received the visit of Augustus, who secretly went to Planasia, accompanied by Fabius Maximus. Augustus and Agrippa, both deeply affected, shed tears when they met, and it was believed that Agri